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Use TensorFlow to predict Bitcoin prices
Here's your chance to use TensorFlow with JavaScript. Train a neural network to predict the rise and fall of Bitcoin prices.
Bun 1.0 is out of the oven
All-in-one toolkit for building, testing, debugging, and running JavaScript and TypeScript is available in a production-ready release.
What is LangChain? Easier development around LLMs
LangChain is a modular framework for Python and JavaScript that simplifies the development of applications that are powered by generative AI language models.
Developers have doubts about WebAssembly, report finds
State of WebAssembly 2023 study finds mostly optimism among software developers about future adoption of Wasm, but also doubts and challenges.
Building collaborative apps with Microsoft Loop components
Adaptive Card-based Loop components are live and portable chunks of functionality that you can embed in Outlook, Teams, business apps, and your own code. Here’s how to get started.
Intro to Hapi: The Node.js framework
Hapi is a Node.js framework that features a high-quality code stack, powerful configuration, and dialed-in extensibility—all without added dependencies. Let's take Hapi for a spin.
Node.js upgrade adds environment variable config
The JavaScript runtime also boasts ECMAScript modules.
How to improve API security in ASP.NET Core
Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core.
The key new features and changes in .NET 8
With Microsoft’s yearly .NET release just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about the changes you will need to make to your code.
How to map object relationships using Dapper in ASP.NET Core
Take advantage of Dapper to create one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many entity relationships in your ASP.NET Core applications.
Flutter 3.13 speeds rendering on iOS
Latest update to Google’s cross-platform UI framework makes Impeller the default graphics renderer on iOS, introduces two-dimensional scrolling.
How to improve data access performance in EF Core
Take advantage of these 10 strategies to improve data access performance when using Entity Framework Core in your data-driven .NET applications.
Fresh web framework for Deno speeds page loading
Ahead-of-time compilation results in assets being served 45x to 60x faster than just-in-time rendering, the Fresh development team says.
Visual Studio 2022 updates spotlight productivity
Visual Studio 2022 17.7 and a preview of 17.8 promise to streamline development with enhancements to diffs, comparisons, searches, pull requests, unit tests, and more.
How to use Fluent Assertions in C#
When unit tests fail, they should clearly explain why. Take advantage of the Fluent Assertions library to write unit test methods that are simple, readable, concise, and expressive.
Microsoft previews new F# syntax for string interpolation
Improved syntax makes it easier to work with text like CSS that contains many curly braces, while maintaining backwards compatibility with F#’s triple-quoted strings.
Intro to Nest.js: The higher-order JavaScript and TypeScript server
Nest.js shines for its modern programming paradigms and modular approach to server-side JavaScript and TypeScript. Here's a hands-on intro.
Reactive programming with RxJava
ReactiveX is one of the most established frameworks for reactive programming, and RxJava is its Java-based implementation. Let's see what we can do with RxJava.
How WebAssembly will transform edge computing
By enabling cloud-native back ends to run on operational edges, Wasm allows us to deploy business logic closer to users or data, even to places Kubernetes and containers can’t go.
Microsoft unveils TypeChat library for building natural language interfaces
Open source library draws on TypeScript and type definitions to retrieve structured responses from AI models that are type-safe.